As the old adage goes, one shouldn’t mix business with pleasure, but ask Melbourne interior decorator and stylist Kim de Winter and you’ll hear different. In fact, when a friend of Kim’s enlisted her expertise in bringing a home to life, she jumped at the chance. “Having a friendship with a client can sometimes by tricky,” admits Kim, “but we managed to become completely intertwined in each other’s lives throughout the whole design process.”
The homeowner with the exciting project was Debra Olenski, an artist whom Kim met up with after living abroad for 15 years and connected through their mutual love of painting. Though Debra and her husband Michael had purchased their house in a south-eastern suburb in 1987, they weren’t ready to renovate until 2017, which meant the home…
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Inside Out (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2020